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johnbean393/KeyType

RepoRadar surfaced johnbean393/KeyType — an AI project — into the Local AI section, where it sits at Gold tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is workflow potential, scored 9.5 out of 10.

Score8.4
Popularity1.0
Riskconditional
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness8.0
Novelty8.0
Momentum7.0
Maturity6.6
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.5
Setup ease6.4

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for local-AI users and Mac builders who want system-wide autocomplete from their own on-device model instead of a browser tab or editor-only assistant.

Who should use it

Mac users who want system-wide autocomplete without sending every keystroke to a hosted provider Local-AI builders studying how to combine accessibility capture, local inference, and inline completion UX Writers and developers who move between terminals, docs, chat apps, and forms all day Teams exploring private, on-device alternatives to cloud typing assistants

Who should skip it

Pass on johnbean393/KeyType if its scope or audience does not match what your team is building right now.

About this signal

johnbean393/KeyType is tracked by RepoRadar as an AI project in the Local AI section. First seen 2026-06-30; the source record was last checked on 2026-06-30. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Gold tier and moderate setup difficulty. Across RepoRadar's eight signals, johnbean393/KeyType is strongest on workflow potential (9.5) and open-source/build quality (8.4) and weakest on setup ease (6.4) — a profile worth weighing against your own priorities. This page summarizes the public evidence on the linked source page and states where additional review is still needed.

How this item is evaluated

The johnbean393/KeyType record combines a 8.4/10 composite score with separate popularity (1.0), risk (conditional), and setup (moderate) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to evaluate an AI tool before you adopt it for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

It reads the focused text field through macOS accessibility APIs, so test it on a non-sensitive machine or exclude apps that may surface credentials, private notes, or regulated data; Completion quality depends on the local model you load and the typing context you expose, so validate latency and false-completion behavior before using it in production writing workflows.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
macos local-ai autocomplete llama.cpp swift productivity mit
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-08-13T20:20:15Z.

No editorial or hands-on review is claimed. This record remains at Discovered.

Verification sources

Longitudinal intelligence

How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

35 dated snapshots retained from 2026-06-30 through 2026-08-13; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score8.4 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum5.5 current · -1.5 net
GitHub stars (observed)454 current · +55 net
GitHub stars454 exact observation
Versionv1.6.0
Last release2026-06-27T07:14:02Z
Maintenancemaintained
Current riskconditional
Current verdicttry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineNo structured integrations recorded

Recent dated points

DateScoreMomentumStarsRiskVerdictMaintenance
2026-08-138.45.5454conditionaltry nowmaintained
2026-08-128.45.8454conditionaltry nowmaintained
2026-08-118.45.5452conditionaltry nowmaintained
2026-08-108.45.8452conditionaltry nowmaintained
2026-08-098.45.5451conditionaltry nowmaintained
2026-08-088.45.8450conditionaltry nowmaintained
2026-08-078.45.8444conditionaltry nowmaintained
2026-08-068.47.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-058.47.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-048.45.8444conditionaltry nowmaintained
2026-08-038.45.8444conditionaltry nowmaintained
2026-08-028.45.8440conditionaltry nowmaintained

Why the record changed

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Source-observed stars changed: 437 → 438. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.

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Maintenance changed: active → maintained.

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